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Running Services with Perpetual Scripts

Perpetual scripts restart upon ending unless canceled.

How to Enable Perpetual Scripts​

In the script's Settings, go to the Runtime tab and enable "Perpetual Script", then Deploy the script.

How to Disable Perpetual Scripts​

Canceling one job from a perpetual script is enough to disable it. You can do it from "Cancel" button.

Cancel perpetual script

You can also click on "Scale down to zero" in the "Current runs" tab.

Scale down to zero

Tutorial​

To learn more about Perpetual Scripts, you can visit our tutorial on how to use a perpetual script to implement a service in Windmill leveraging Apache Kafka:

Service script pattern in Windmill using Kafka
This example shows how to use a perpetual script to implement a service in Windmill leveraging Kafka.